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Comedian Jerome Davis hosts No I.D. Podcast — the show where real conversations meet raw comedy. Each episode dives deep with comedians, creators, and culture shifters, exploring everything from life and career to art, mental health, and surviving the grind — all with sharp humor and zero filter.
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No I.D.
Dezz Nicholson: The Art of Finding Your Stage
What happens when you're a sunflower trying to bloom in a rose garden? Dezz Nicholson knows that feeling all too well. The accomplished poet, singer, and creative sits down with Rome Davis to discuss the complex journey of finding your authentic voice and space in a creative world that often feels threatened by new talent.
Dezz takes us through her origins as an entrepreneurial fourth-grader charging $1 to write customized love poems for classmates, to her transformation into a powerful performer who discovered her gift when she made someone cry with her words at a high school Black History Month event. Her story isn't just about talent—it's about having the courage to recognize when you're in the wrong environment.
"If I am a sunflower in a rose garden, I cannot get mad at the roses for having thorns and pricking me. I can, however, leave the rose garden and go through to the sunflower field where I don't have to worry about anybody pricking me," Dezz explains, providing a powerful framework for artists struggling to fit in spaces that weren't designed for them.
The conversation dives deep into the gatekeeping mentality that pervades creative communities, where established artists protect their territory rather than mentor newcomers. Dezz challenges this scarcity mindset with her belief that "the spotlight is large enough for all of us." She discusses how fear keeps many artists stuck in their comfort zones, preventing growth while they simultaneously complain about not achieving broader success.
Between profound insights about creative authenticity and finding your path despite resistance, Rome and Dezz share lighthearted moments about family dynamics, generational differences, and the simple joys of life. Their natural chemistry creates a conversation that feels both deeply meaningful and comfortably familiar—just like sitting with old friends discussing life's biggest questions.
Ready to find your sunflower field? Listen to this episode and discover where you truly belong.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the no ID Podcast. I am your host, rome Davis, and I have here poet, actress, writer, singer, creative, my best friend, des Nicholson. Hey Des, hi, how are you today? I'm blessed. How are you, des Nicholson? Hey Des.
Speaker 2:Hi, how are you today?
Speaker 1:I'm blessed. How are you?
Speaker 2:I'm alright. What does your shirt?
Speaker 1:say my energy taste.
Speaker 2:Like me. This is a shirt from the Black Author brand. Actually, they're a local brand. You can get one, too, one day.
Speaker 1:One day.
Speaker 2:It says authentic at the at the bottom. You know it tastes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, I saw, I saw that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like some people just see the taste like me part. And they're like what does that even mean? And I'm like yeah, you know, I would say something like real, wow, like tastes like chocolate chip cookies, the ones that are like crispy around the edges specifically, but like gooey in the middle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, cream pie.
Speaker 2:No oatmeal. Cream pie no oatmeal.
Speaker 1:No oatmeal, it's cream pie Round the realm. Oatmeal, it's cream pie around the realm there is uh people that don't know the background me and des. I don't know when I met des, but I know I met her at a place called the venue on 35th street in norfolk, where we meet up with every well, I'm there pretty much every thursday there. Des is there when des is there sometimes yeah uh, des is a poet, um, and you're like 132nd of the slam connection right I am one-sixth of slam connection.
Speaker 1:Yes okay now, how did you get into poetry?
Speaker 2:let's start from there how did I get into poetry? I've been into poetry my whole life, my whole life from when I was young. In fourth grade, I think, we learned about poems. My big sister was really into poetry. She read a lot of Maya Angelou and we shared a room, so we shared a bookshelf. But in fourth grade I started pimping out poems, because that's when everybody started like coupling up and I started writing poems for people to give to their girlfriends and boyfriends for like a dollar, and that's how I got through my elementary years oh.
Speaker 1:So it was like, yeah, I'm about to hang out with shorty by the slide, write me a poem for a dollar, right, quick. And you were just in the corner writing what everybody was just booed up yeah, I was like tell me a couple things about her.
Speaker 2:What are you like? How long have you been together? And then after that I'd be like yeah, and then, depending on who you were, would depend on how I would write the poem. Like, if I knew you were somebody who didn't really pay attention in class, I'd be like roses are red, violets are blue. Um, if I knew you were somebody who had a larger vocabulary, I'd put words like aggravate in there. Well, not aggravate, but like larger words in there oh, it's been the vernacular of the diction of the electric felt like it came from the person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's wild vernacular of the diction of the electric felt like it came from the person. Yeah, I'm buying it.
Speaker 1:That's wild. Yeah, one dollar I can get a roses, red, violet zoo, some shit there from looney tunes I bet I was, but it's, it's tailored, it's customized oh, yeah, yeah okay so when did you actually like because you let's fast forward a little bit when did you actually like? Cause you let poem for Black History Month.
Speaker 2:Um, I was like more or less voluntold. My cousin and my best friend at the time were like you're great. And I was like thanks. And then they were like I'm a part of this club and I told them that you was going to do it. So now you got to do it, or it's going to make me look bad. And I was like dang, I got to do it and then I did it. And also I don't know why, people just went off of my cousin's word, like because they had never heard me until like the day before, which was like dress rehearsal. But my cousin said I was good. So it was like you got to be good because she says so. And then I did it. And then somebody cried and I was like whoa, I can make people cry. And then, yeah, and then when I came out to Virginia, I found the venue on 35th Street and that's when I started learning more and becoming more serious Went to workshops, slam competitions, things of that sort.
Speaker 1:And that was like 2017, 2018 vibes. So you went from poems in the fourth grade saying I love you to junior year high school making people cry. Yeah, it's a roller coaster of emotions quite the leap because I was.
Speaker 2:I was actively still like reading poetry and watching poetry and doing things of that sort. I was always studying and learning and observing and I was like, look what I could do.
Speaker 1:I actually tried to get into poetry one time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how'd that go Spit bars right now.
Speaker 1:Off the dome.
Speaker 2:Off the dome. What you got nothing.
Speaker 1:So on Friday nights they used to do I think it was at 10 o'clock bad boys of comedy and after that was Def Jam Portrait. It was one of them. Um, so that's when I actually got a real taste of uh, it was one poem up there. I forgot the guy's name, but I remember like the title of the poem, a nigga and a nerd. And then most deaf was up there and kanye west was up there, amanda seals and you see all these different poets going. It was fucking dope, but I think it only lasts like three, four seasons and they just, yeah, plug and I hate to say bad boys, a comedy special with all the shit going on now but, like I was like oh, I want to try it.
Speaker 1:So I tried to rap yeah did you have a? Rapper name yeah, I did what was it? I did untouchable jay untouchable jay period because jay-z is my favorite rapper and I love the movie state property and his name in the movie was untouchable jay, and my name is jerome, but I go by rome, so I was like, oh, I'll be untouchable jay then, it stopped because I love old dirty bastard, so his name.
Speaker 1:He was calling himself big baby Jesus and Osiris and I was like, oh, I'm just going to be Osiris, but I can't be a big baby Jesus.
Speaker 2:So Right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Do you have? Did you have, like a era of names that you went through? You know, I'm just going to be this.
Speaker 2:Um, I younger years going to be this Younger years started off as lyrical.
Speaker 1:Original.
Speaker 2:Yeah, honestly, I found it because somebody was yelling at their child in the store and they were like lyrical, and I was like that's it, that's me, that's me, and that was it for lyrical and I was like that's it, that's me, that's me, and that was it for a little bit. And then my grandma calls me Des and my grandma is one of my favorite people, so it just kind of stuck.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:I spelled it with two Z's because I could.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. No, all right.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, all right I spelled it with two z's because I could. Okay, all right, no, all right. Who was something like your biggest inspiration as far as like poets go, as far as poets go um, is this like specifically big local or just in general?
Speaker 1:You don't In general.
Speaker 2:Um, I think I really like Jill Scott and Erykah Badu and I know like they're technically singers, but their flow and especially the like beginning of their careers were more like poetry-wise. I'm a big Rudy Francisco fan. I like Daniel Garwood. His willingness to always learn from whoever's around him and his passion specifically for the craft um is something I thoroughly admire. And, yeah, I think those are are my insos.
Speaker 1:Mine was iceberg slim.
Speaker 2:Period.
Speaker 1:Period I can't damn.
Speaker 2:That's like I can't have no inspiration whatsoever.
Speaker 1:I just I'm just messing with you. So did the music come at the same time as poetry, or did it?
Speaker 2:um, I think so. I joined the course in fourth grade as well. I come from a family of singers, more or less. Uh, we made up our church choir and uh, so my sisters were. You know my I. Just I've always wanted to be like my sisters, so when they started singing, I was like that's what I want to do, cause I want to be just like you, and then I started singing.
Speaker 2:Well, at first it was, you know, like the Michael Jackson um story where he was like I want to sing, and then Joe was like you can't sing. It was very much that like I had to prove that I could sing and be up on the choir, um, but yeah, and then I've been doing that since I was little. And then my uh older sister who has now passed uh like really enjoyed me singing, and so she was like you should put music out. You should do it, because when it comes to singing, I've always been like my voice doesn't sound a whole lot, like a whole lot of people's voices, um, I can't see people listening to me, just to listen to me. Um, now that has since changed, but that was very much my thing. And then my sister was like if you enjoy it, you should do it. And she was like if anybody's gonna listen, i'ma listen. And then she died before I put on my first song and never listened. So I guess she lied, but it happens, so yeah it's sunday.
Speaker 1:You wipe the smile off your face. I don't even know how to come back at that with another question, but it's gone. So how's the scene? How's the poetry scene? How's the creative scene? For you guys out there, is it like, like, like how the poet, like how the comedians are? Is it clickish and gatekeepers, or is like everybody's just one?
Speaker 2:um, it has become very clickish and gatekeeper-ish and honestly, I don't know if it's become that or if I just didn't always realize how clickish and gatekeeper-ish it was because I wasn't super into it, but it can be clickish and gatekeeper-ish. I think something that not a lot of people, a mentality that not a lot of creatives have, is that the spotlight is big enough for all of us. Um, and yeah, so that's something I don't enjoy about, like the scene as a whole, because I'm a full believer on. The spotlight is large enough for all of us, the sun shines on all of us, there is, in fact, enough room at the table for all of us, and if not, we can get another table. Um, but not everybody thinks like that like, yeah, this is like they figure.
Speaker 1:They get in with one booker, one comedian or one comedy club, like they're good and like everybody wants to be that, like my.
Speaker 1:My saying is everybody wants to be a big shark in a small pond, or there's a lot of betas trying to be alphas you know what I'm saying, and a lot of my, threatened too because they've gotten so good and gotten so far, just from like coasting and just riding the wave, that like when a new person comes up, it's like and the person's like smoking, like they got, they got all the emotion, they got the performance down, the cadence is right. They're like, they feel threatened. Is that like something?
Speaker 2:that you've seen. Yeah, I feel like at some point it kind of feels like the people stopped ushering in people, um, stopped teaching um, and just want to like if they get booked, then they get booked. Like they're like I don't want to put anybody else onto these same opportunities, um, and then also the. I've been doing it this way for umpteen years and it's been working, so why would I want to change? Or, and in that like people refuse to expand, like if you to me, if your craft growing, you stop growing as a person? Correct, because your craft is supposed to be a reflection of you. So if you're like this is the formula, this is the formula I figured out, this is the formula that works and all you do is said formula and you don't never learn another one, then you might be stuck as a person, and that, I feel like, is shown in things.
Speaker 2:But I know people get real comfortable with the same places they be performing with the same people that know them, and there's nothing wrong with, like, being a local celebrity. Right, being a local celebrity is great If that's what you want. Um, but people talk as if they want more, like to be a local celebrity and then complain that you aren't as big as you feel like you should be, but then not doing any thing other than go to the same places and talk to these same people who are going to tell you you're great and did a, did a, did a. And then like trying to shut it out from new people coming in is also just a thing.
Speaker 1:I agree. I think it's like you gotta be comfortable being uncomfortable and a lot of times some people, especially comedians, they'll get this big ass height and they'll be like. Well, I'm just doing shows here in Richmond and Williamsburg, so I'm good. And then they complain why they're not getting booked. Meanwhile you got the ones that's not getting booked at home, but they're getting booked out of the state.
Speaker 2:Right booked at home but, they're getting booked out of the state, right, and there's also the like, the somehow, because to me a lot of people feel like they're in competition and I don't feel like you should be in competition with any like. Unless you're in an actual competition, then, yeah, be a competition. But I'm even the type to be like if we're in competition, I'm still rooting for you to do your best. I just also have complete faith that I'm going to do my best. But that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 2:But it's just the feeling like we're in competition because I know, when I first moved out of the state um and started doing poems other places, it became a like Des thinks she's too good for us. You think that you're X, y and Z because you get to go and perform out there but nobody knows you here and it's like, okay, I don't know why that upsets you. I don't know why you feel so strongly about that, considering I didn't say nothing about you only being here, and no, and people only knowing you here, and the people being here don't even support you. So I don't know why you're trying to ride for so hard. But you know, okay, because you'd be like I'm on this lineup but you didn't get paid for that lineup. You're just on the lineup, you're basically doing community service.
Speaker 1:But free promo you know.
Speaker 2:But we're upset because and like I don't know, when leaving the state and doing things outside of the state started to feel like an attack on the state. And I don't even think that's it. I think it's people. You're mad because you're not doing it, but the only reason you're not doing it is because you are scared and you're letting that fear control you instead of drive you.
Speaker 1:Drive you out of the state.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway, see a lot of people in my opinion let fear keep you exactly where you are. Exactly where you are. You're so scared of the mountain that you decide to stay on the ground and then get mad at people who were also scared of the mountain but decided that that wasn't going to stop them. And now they get to see the sky from super high yeah, thanks.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of times you get shitted on for leaving your state and they're like well, you know, I don't know. I think people hate to see you do better than them. And going back to what you said, it's a lot of plates. We get off the same plate I.
Speaker 1:It pisses me off that everybody thinks it's one microphone on one stage right, I might be rambling, it pisses me off a lot, like I'm like all right for me personally, um, I don't get booked here, yeah, so I don't get booked here. I gotta go like, not even in 757, I gotta go to the 804 or something and go do time up there, or I gotta go to dc to go get a little like three, three, five minute spot in. Um, so they just won't book me here. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2:I couldn't tell you, I think it's so like the phrase bloom, where you're planted, everybody is so like serious about it where it's like.
Speaker 2:If where you're planted is not suitable for your bloom, you might need to leave, leave you, first of all, everybody, be like the rose in the concrete, the rose in the concrete. The rose is not supposed to be in the concrete in the first place. That is not where rose belongs. It belongs in a garden. So if me being here and doing what I'm doing feels like concrete, you being mad that I'm going places with gardens is crazy. When you didn't want to dig up the concrete in the first place, you put the concrete down and it's the. If I am, this is. This is something my daddy says.
Speaker 2:If I am a sunflower in a rose garden, I cannot get mad at the roses for having thorns and pricking me. I can, however, leave the rose garden and go through to the sunflower field where I don't have to worry about anybody pricking me. Because if just for me to do something I'm passionate about, something that for a lot of people is a lifeline, is a fight, I'm a black woman in America. I fight every day of my life. I came out the womb fighting. Something that heals me and helps me should not be another fight.
Speaker 2:I'm a black woman in America. I fight every day of my life. I came out the womb fighting. Something that heals me and helps me should not be another fight. So if I have to leave for it not to be a fight, I'm going to leave, and if that upsets people which it has, which it will y'all just gonna have to be upset, because your hurt feelings don't, for one, pay my bills. It don't make my poetry any better, it don't make me a better singer and it does nothing for my life. And I'm sorry, I gotta listen you're okay.
Speaker 1:Uh, uh, you're okay. I had to just sit back and be a sunflower and go to the sunflower bit as you should, as you should clock that because y'all told me this didn't mean what I said well, this is no.
Speaker 2:So if you put your fingers up and go like this, then that can be clock, but a lot of people don't know that and they just do this. And this is no in sign language.
Speaker 1:Oh, this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, when I'm a little, I'm a little shady, so sometimes people be like yes and I'd be like no, but not everybody knows that.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't think I've ever seen you be shady before.
Speaker 2:Cause I do it so subtly.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know what? I don't think I have given you a reason for you to be. I probably have. But probably haven't in a long time gave you a reason for you to be shady towards me.
Speaker 2:I don't feel like I've ever had to actively. I've never felt the need to be shady towards you.
Speaker 1:There are some people where I'm like, where I'm like you about to talk the boxing drawers off of me.
Speaker 2:Not talking off you saying I talk nice.
Speaker 1:My energy tastes like me, authentically.
Speaker 2:I'm deceased.
Speaker 1:I hate that. I hate that with a passion.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry I was actually about to say, first of all, because you had you got on stage and you was like I don't know what it is with this generation, but instead of just laughing, they be like dead LOL cackling, and I was like I feel so attacked. But how? And I'm going to blame it on autism, because sometimes I just want to say the words and I don't want to do the action. Okay, I'm autistic, leave me alone.
Speaker 1:I hate that shit with a passion. I did a show. I did a show one time and the girls in the front, she said I don't read, I like to laugh.
Speaker 2:You don't fucking laugh also, okay, let's one of the reasons that I do. It is because growing up and like for a good part of like my earlier adult years, I was told my laugh was too loud. I was told my laugh was distracting. So it's easier for me to just be like weak instead of laughing, because now I have a fear, like a subconscious fear, that I am going to be distracting that would be.
Speaker 1:I think the louder the laugh, the better for me. You ever seen somebody? And don't smile. You know how weird that looks.
Speaker 2:I don't just I love people who laugh with their shoulders.
Speaker 1:Something about a shoulder, just do it for me I hate when people laugh and hit you in the process of laughing stop, because if you funny, if you made me laugh, i'ma hit you a good time.
Speaker 2:That's why I can't cause. The laugh becomes spasms and now I just gotta be like weak lol, I hate that shit cause I'll be like hey, hey, god damn it.
Speaker 1:Nah, man, let me just say this too I don't personally pick on you with the laughter thing you right, I just felt it's just I, only I do what you guys.
Speaker 2:I write about what I know valid that's it I know you don't be left. Oh my god, you say your words you're right.
Speaker 1:But how do y'all, how do y'all measure how good a poem? Look, I measure my jokes off of laughter, right. How do y'all measure your poems off, like personally, is it like emotions, like you see somebody cry, is it how many snaps y'all get?
Speaker 2:for me personally, it depends on what the poem is like, what I wrote it for, um, for like, I did a poem last night about being a veteran and and a woman scored really well, got a perfect score. Hashtag 30 um, but 30 really like. For me, where I was like, oh no, this is a good poem, was all of the veteran women who came out. It was like three or four of them, but to me that's still a lot. Um, but like, came up and actively had full length conversations about, like, our time in the service and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Um and that's because when I wrote that poem, I very much was like nah, we need to talk about this. I want this to be a conversation. But for things like a shit talking poem, I want the, the, the snaps, the like reaction to my bars is where I'm like, oh yeah, I did that, I did that, um, but yeah. But also just like for me, how I feel during the poem, um, when I wrote it, when I performed it, goes into how I feel about the poem and what I would score the poem. Um, but if I were judging a slam, I'd go off of your performance, I'd go off your content If you dropped any pieces, if, like what you were doing with your hands. You know, pops is always often like, if you do hand movements, let it be for a purpose. And so if you, if I am judging, and somebody's just and I'm like, nope, your hands done, lost you point five points because what is you doing? Um, but yeah, and then also did you make me feel something?
Speaker 1:because anybody can talk but not everybody can emote so, like your shit talking poem tools, be like the perfect ones that we go and like I'm weak sometimes like yeah, yeah, those are the ones, okay, okay okay, I'll be saying you know, I'll be saying bars and they'd be like I'm weak, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because if you full-on cackle in the middle of me doing a poem, I'm going to be fine because I'm a professional, but it might be distracting for some people. You can laugh, you can laugh with me it's okay.
Speaker 1:Show those pearly white show, show the nice smile, laugh, appreciate you. Oh, you know my energy tastes like me Authentically, bro, I'm going to put that in a joke.
Speaker 2:What's liking you Now I got to buy you a shirt, uh, ooh. It's okay, you don't have to say it on the podcast. You can tell me later.
Speaker 1:No, no, don't have to say it on the podcast. You can tell me no, no, no, I say it because you know my fitness shit. You know I'll be at the gym lifting and stuff. So the shirt sizes do change valid so I've been on my life fitness and I'm old, yeah, oh, does the shirt shrink up? Because it shrinks up, give me a large, okay, because it shrink up, go to a medium, you know.
Speaker 2:I mean, if it don't shrink up, oh, give me a medium you ain't gotta give me, this is you, this is an extra large, and I've had it for, I want to say, almost a year now how long have you had jigger? That's your cat yes, I've had jigger for I want to two years for two years. He's about to be three. Well, two years, he's about to be three. Well, almost two years, he's about to be three next month.
Speaker 1:You ever ask yourself sometimes I know I'm gonna be rambling, but like when you see a cat and cats got nine lives how many lives they got left Sometimes, sometimes.
Speaker 2:Because, like some cats, do stuff where I'll be like this has to be a good life, this has to be a life this has to be. That is not fifth life behavior. That is.
Speaker 1:You just got here I'd be thinking about it because why are you playing with the socket? I think about a lot of stuff, man. My mind just don't be there. Sometimes I'm like, wow, that cat, like I saw one time I was driving, this cat just ran underneath my car. I was like, hey, yeah, first life, yeah, that's when he had another cat with him. He was the other cat, didn't do it. He was like you know how they crawl back?
Speaker 2:I was like yeah, he's on his seventh one, he's because first life, especially if you know, like I wonder if cats know they have nine lives, because if you know, then your first life you, you way out of pocket on purpose because you know you got another one this is like nonchalantly yeah it was like, oh shit, I got.
Speaker 1:Oh fuck, that, that's just the first one. I can do it again. I got several months. Who knows? Like, yeah, like I saw this one comedian, brian Simpson. He was like Wombs man, only had 200 nuts in they life. Imagine that's how many nuts you have, like dudes be stressing, they had 190. Like what's wrong with Rome? Oh man, you know, he's just going through menopause. I'm just going through menopause. I'm just going through menopause right now. You know what I mean. Just give him a little bit of time. He wouldn't be so free with it.
Speaker 1:You know, like, think about you get your paycheck. Your paycheck will be like $2,000. You done spent the shit up. But when you get down to that last little bit, you be like, yeah, I'm good, I ain't going out tonight. Mm-hmm, struggle.
Speaker 1:Like, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and go in the house, make me some spam or something ramen noodles. I'm gonna drink some water. I got some bread in there. I get filled up one way. I don't know, man, I'd be checking that McDonald's out. Is that $5? Let me go ahead and make rich right quick. I'm just like.
Speaker 1:You know, you know pretty much. You know about a week or so next time you see me, you know pretty much some of this is gonna be on the stage. There's nine lives in this. Make yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you keep saying back in the day this I don't even think you're 30, are you? Yeah, okay, all right, that's what's up. You call me when you 31, 32, yeah, I'm 36, I'm closer to 40 than I am to your age.
Speaker 1:Look at this, look at this shit, look at this. It's just gone. That don't matter. You wish you was watching God and Light in the heat of the night and all that shit. That shit was lit. I ain't going to lie. Touchdown. Angel Della Reese. I love that show. People don't know the struggle Like.
Speaker 1:Y'all can go online and google shit where your next tv show comes on. Y'all can hit guide on remote. They can program. Y'all got netflix. We had the tv guy. It was a thick ass book that planned out our television for one month. And if he was lucky, you got the green tv guy that came in the newspaper every Sunday and he would open up and you'll be circling. Okay, alright, we didn't have DVR, we didn't have on demand. If we missed it, we fucking missed it. We had to go read about it in weekly digest. Hmm, and it won't. It won't, no, quick shit.
Speaker 1:It was some hearty, some hard. It was heavy and I used to stay with my grandmother. I stayed in norview. One of my grandmothers stayed in wellington oaks, the other one stayed behind norview middle school. So at the one in norview middle school, if you say I want a ham sandwich, she baked a ham, a whole ham with all the everything. If you say like it was just old school, like I was staying with her for a while because I had gotten some trouble across the street, so I would stay with her. And she was a candy lady too. For people that don't know, when black people retire to supplement income, they become candy ladies. They got a membership to Costco and they got freeze cups. So I would stay with her some. For I stayed with her for like a couple of months. I got some some trouble on the other side. So I was staying with her.
Speaker 1:And like we talking I'm getting out of school 2, 30 we talking about big hams, fried chicken, turkey spaghetti, spaghetti salad. It was never. It was never. No simple shit, not a lunchable. We talking about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, your stomach just heavy as shit and you got to do homework with cops. Oh ooh, big ass. Pots rusted out like a motherfucker just sitting up there cooking some shit. God damn, let's go ahead and throw it. You had that big ass, that little black fucking skillet, didn't? That was messed up, that didn't been ever brand new, and no matter how much soap, don or what have you put onto that shit, all that shit, nothing would come off, and they always knew when it was dirty. Nah, this is dirty. How the fuck do you know?
Speaker 1:it's still. You gotta let it soak overnight. No, I don't wanna wake up and clean this shit. Thank you, thank you. I was never in charge. I was in charge of the store runs. Because you'll go grocery shopping for two fucking weeks straight and, for whatever reason, you want me to drive from timbuk. My family was military, so if that shit was not at the commissary, we didn't know what the price was. So you want me to drive to farm fresh food line walmart, they ain't got it. So who has it? Motherfucking 7-eleven, and you know that shit is two times the price that you would pay compared to you paying it. Why'd you get it from there? I'm like, oh to hell with this shit. Oh, I forgot it. You wrote a list. You wrote a list list. You scratched all shit as you picked it up. Yeah, like you go to the grocery store, I go to the grocery store. My mom, my mom, I love my mom. She's a comedian too. My mom does this one thing that irritates me so much in the grocery store. She'll go where do you think this is at? The vanilla ashtray is that? I'm like I don't work here. Go ask somebody. You know you walking around, hey, where's the vanilla ashtray at and she'll go. I knew it was there.
Speaker 1:Why did you my father before he passed? We would go hang out and we'll go for rides and just talk life. And I'd be like bro, where we going, like I think we're going home. He's like, yeah, uh, you remember I took you this way when you was in middle school, from the baseball game. I'm like bro, I'm 30 years old, bro, I don't remember that. Yeah, I'm 30 years old, bro. I don't remember that. Yeah, see, you got that. My grandfather be like he used to call me before he used to call. He'd be like you remember such and such. I'd be like, yeah, oh, she died. What? What's the purpose? What are you telling me? For what kind of fruit do you like this? Hmm, me too. I like strawberries too. Berries too. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about it off the camera, yeah, you know. Yeah, you know, I got the address. You know I'm saying I can pull up. You know I got a full tank. I got a full tank of gas and I'm off this week. So, brick, I like strawberries, I like bananas, but I don't like the way people look at me when I eat a banana. You like banana pudding. You know, banana pudding never got no bananas in it. Now you upgraded when you got the chestman. Chestman changed your life. Yeah, I noticed, I shot my shot at this and she's just like yeah, we're gonna go ahead and change the topic.
Speaker 1:I like oranges, I like oranges, I like pomegranate, they're just hard. Oh damn, no more chocolate covered strawberries, all right. Oh wow, and I break the hell out that damn shot. Oh yeah, I guess it's back to the drawing board. Let me just dm, uh, my, my celebrity crush, sherry shepherd, to see if she's gonna reply back. Yeah, I laughed, thank you, she is like I don't understand. Like she is beautiful, oh my god, her and kim whitley are um, and tiffany. Had tiffany had us reply back to one dm, she just liked it that I was singing a song to her on my story and I hear every time she posts a show I'd be like, hey, can I get a guest spot?
Speaker 1:I'm never in that, but I got restricted from her page. Ain't who? Ain't who been some awkward pauses in this conversation, but I appreciate you coming on. Yeah, my energy tastes like me authentically. Yeah, if they want to follow you or find you, where do they go? Say angel, okay, uh, you guys, you know you can follow me comedian rome all social media platforms at comedian rome davis on youtube. No id podcast on facebook and instagram. I have a ticky top, but I do not go on ticky top because I don't trust it. Valid like, you're supposed to shut down a couple of months ago, then it's back and then it's got an extension. You also can and you're like, man, fuck this, I don't trust it, I don't, I really don't, I don't like it, I don't like it. Um, thank you so much this. Uh, I'm gonna put the link in the bio. Go ahead, start the recording.
